Chortle Digest: Marcus Brigstocke plays Cheers and a new TV improv show...

Welcome to your weekly round-up of comedy news. As always check chortle.co.uk for listings of more than 4,500 live comedy gigs as well as all the breaking news, reviews and features

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Live:

Vir Das: The Boarding Das World Tour
Gabriel Iglesias: FluffyMania World Tour
Milton Jones is Out There
Colin Hoult: Anna Mann – How We Stop The Fascists
Phill Jupitus: Juplicity

TV:
BBC Two pilot The Pact with  Sarah Solemani and Brett Goldstein



It's been 35 years since Cheers started. What have been the highs and lows of its stars' careers?

Roisin Conaty on her new E4 sitcom GameFace

What Hugh Hefner did for comedy

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Larry David in the writers' room; Mock The Week asks for unlikely things to hear on a TV comedy show and  Jack Whitehall and Romesh Ranganathan get soaped-up and slippery on A League Of Their Own, among many more.

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